Rather interesting gimmick to persuade folk for the Abbey Road lectures in this week-end - unfortunately I'm not able to participate.Beatles-in-the-studio expert Brian Kehew ranks their works in terms of their groundbreaking sonic innovations (see A.R. Studio April News).Kehew is a co-writer of one of the best nice studio production guide ever written,Recording the Beatles. What interesting in this "ad", is that 8 of the 10 "most technically amazing" Beatles songs are, according to Kehew, Lennon songs, only 1 of 10 is Macca's. Harrison's Blue Jay Way is also included."Technically amazing" is of course relative and popularisation, but shows perhaps Lennon's affinity in "changing" things, including his voice - and George Martin's willingness (and skills!) to serve the musician he so much loved and admired.Harry

Well, just to say, it's a little more complicated than just John being the "out there" one...there's a recording of him complaining with some irritation that it's always his tunes that get the "experimental" treatments...and then of course he also said he wasn't happy with any of the AR stuff and would have liked to record all of his over again...I couldn't quite tell from your post title if "technically amazing" meant *musically* technically amazing or that they did some technically cool thing after it was written, but I see it is the latter...well, their joint hunger for new harmonic combinations and different ways of attacking the same musical problems would be another great lecture series. Still...cool stuff!

SongMonkey wrote:Well, just to say, it's a little more complicated than just John being the "out there" one...there's a recording of him complaining with some irritation that it's always his tunes that get the "experimental" treatments...and then of course he also said he wasn't happy with any of the AR stuff and would have liked to record all of his over again...I couldn't quite tell from your post title if "technically amazing" meant *musically* technically amazing or that they did some technically cool thing after it was written, but I see it is the latter...well, their joint hunger for new harmonic combinations and different ways of attacking the same musical problems would be another great lecture series. Still...cool stuff!

Cheers!

Agree, as said, this ranking (http://www.mojo4music.com/14018/10-most ... les-songs/) is more or less gimmick or entertaining. My list would be partially different. But what is interesting, the guy who made this ranking is a real expert in the studio technology - perhaps he wasn´t thinking that much musically. H.